Educating the Child

Accepting Mother means rejecting many things of which the determinism at birth is one.

This means man can achieve whatever he wants.

In practice, this is reduced to achieving what anyone longs for from the depths of her being.

Those who have perceived that their buried aspirations have come true are those who have the capacity to create a Genius or Luck.

Chapter XX in Self-Perfection in Synthesis of Yoga is 'Intuitive Mind.' There the four faculties of intuition – suggestion, discrimination, inspiration and revelation – are described.

It is easy to educate a receptive child to act rightly on our suggestions that are not direct instructions. His response is a good sign.

Developing faculties of discrimination in ourselves is a help to pass it on to the child. The mother readily responding to every suggestion without fail will enable the child to inherit it.

Education of the child can be directly organised so as to create the faculties of suggestion, discrimination, inspiration and revelation. The parent can qualify first. Genius is ONE ray of intuition. Intuitive knowledge itself is wide, as wide as the universe. The known geniuses had that venerable ability in one of the many aspects possible.

Parents who recognise the streak of genius in a child can work to bring it out. It can be created when it is not there.

That is the lowest that can be done to a child. The best is different.

Any work can be accomplished if it is consecrated the moment it rises in the mind. Our consecration is long after the first thought occurred. The first thought itself is seen long after the first flash of that thought in the subtle mind which we often miss.

One achieves only to the extent one's personality is ORGANISED.

What is it to organise one's personality?

We have several faculties. They can be centralised when they are unrelated. Faculties functioning independently produce the minimum.

One faculty uniting with another brings in extraordinary results.

A faculty integrating with another faculty brings out the maximum result from both. Coordinating ALL one's faculties so that each faculty produces its maximum result is to organise one's personality.

Put in ordinary words, a man who is intent on a result must direct all his energies harmoniously to achieve that result, called in the language single-minded devotion.

This is in the gross mind. It can be raised to the subtle mind and causal plane. Further, they all can be integrated.

One cardinal discipline is to decondition oneself of all previous conditionings.

It can be made impersonal, particularly the relationship with the child. Self-giving is more effective than selfish attitudes.

Deconditioning is achieved by past consecration.

When great potentials have already been created in the previous generations, prejudice must give way to draw upon them. Such energies love to give themselves fully to grateful drawings upon, not resentful restraint.

Rising to the occasion, shedding the past, feeling GRATITUDE to the source of GRACE, reading about intuition of which genius is one ray, single-minded devotion that is calm and equal to achieving the goal, a QUIET that is incapable of any expression, a willingness to be a good human being of positive qualities will all sum up as cheerful confident FREEDOM of action that delights the being as if it is always in the Presence of the Divine Mother who is determined to accomplish your goal.

By changing the Silence into drishti, one moves to the level of the Rishi of the Illumined Mind.

Not depending upon even light, one moves up to intuitive mind.

By Silence, we mean NOT dwelling upon the work.

By drishti, we mean NOT enjoying the Silence.

By intuition, it is meant not being proud of the Vision.

By a humility the achievement deserves, one moves up at once.

Many children are endowed with the potentials of genius, if not the faculty itself.

It becomes a victim to social conditioning.

Nor does a flowering genius tolerate psychological conditioning.

In the absence of either, the child will instantly become a turmoil or a tyrant.

Mastering the movements of the child is permissible only by the pure power of pure LOVE.

Nothing else is ever permissible.

Calm and cheerfulness that issues out of it is a measure of the final outcome.

There are several questions that loom large.

These questions are there for all the work. Some of them are,

can I do it?

is it achievable?, etc.

Each question has several shades and sub-arguments. When we refer to it for one aspect, the others do not catch our attention.

It needs all your mental interest and the entire energy of our being. Be sure of that, the rest will follow.

From today onwards, you have to move to another world, all quite new to your social personality.

What matters is decision and determination.

They become better and full when consecrated and surrendered.

Quality of SURRENDER rises as the Quality of the person rises.

The PERSON is what we want to be.

Silly, shallow, shabby, brainless specimen cannot be called human beings. This is a human project, not meant for two-legged animals.

The Force is there waiting to enter us. Qualify by QUIET.

Attachment to the child is a bar, so also detachment. Affection of a higher type is neither attached or unattached.

Success in the society is good. One can have it while remaining sub-human. Mother does not deny Herself to sub-humans.

Our aim must be explicitly more than human. There is no compromising it.

Build on your BEST.

Supramental knowledge exists in three versions.

Pure Jnana in the Supramental plane.

Applied knowledge in the ignorance of life.

Trikaladrishti in the subtle plane.

The supramental description of any level of knowledge can be obtained from The Life Divine or Synthesis of Yoga.

Thus, the seat of Genius is in the Intuitive Mind where the intuition is of the object outside. When that intuition shifts to inside, the intuitional knowledge changes into Supramental knowledge.

How do we organise that intuitional knowledge into applied knowledge – here to reach the child's mind through education?

At home and at school, the child learns apart from what he learns on his own. It is knowledge of sense impressions reaching the brain stimulating the mind to go outside.

Suppose we want to teach him geography, the names of continents, countries, capitals, rivers and mountains, we resort to the visual and audio methods to reach his mental sense operating in the brain. Is there a method of intuition? The child cannot know Russia or Delhi through intuition, but he can receive intuition from the mother without that knowledge passing through his senses or brain. When the mother acquires that knowledge, she will store it in the memory of her brain. Instead, if she raises her own KNOWLEDGE of states and cities to her intuitive mind, it has a chance of directly passing to the intuition of the child.

She raises her own knowledge to Silence, Light and then to pure intuition.

An experiment of this description succeeding once is a great beginning. One needs infinite patience, better still, infinite LOVE.

Conversion of knowledge of Ignorance into Pure Knowledge.

This is a movement from mind to Supermind.

Mental knowledge is indirect through senses.

Can we know directly or help a child to know directly?

When you do NOT insist on the JOY of Ignorance, that higher knowledge seeks you.

It is easy to know all the steps of seeking knowledge of ignorance.

observation

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mental or social value of that information

intensity of interest

attitude of being at it till it is secured

Joy in securing it

possession of it

pride in possession

understanding the value of that pride as prestige

Find out where you are and let the mind travel in the reverse.

Observe at each step the same process of nine steps taking place for securing the deconditioning. The ego, disinherited from one plane, moves quickly ahead of us to the plane where we are, thus thwarting our attempt to dissolve it.

Come face to face with the ego and say NO to it.

The feeling of vast freedom is a sure sign of success.

Do not seek that success. Be calm.

When you come to not observe what is happening, we complete that round.

What remains is the memory of the earlier accumulations.

Memory is insincerity.

From now on, we set ourselves on the same nine steps at a higher level.